Charlie Cooper (not as smart as her older sister Pen and not as cute as her little brother Felix) has been grounded all summer and forced to see a shrink. For what you ask? For poisoning the school lunch with laxatives in order to get rid of her new enemy. So when she's faced with going to a new school, her doctor tells her exactly how she won't have to see him again, . Find the worst case loser and become their friend. To do so would mean social suicide, but then again she won't have to see the shrink anymore. What is Charlie to do? Can she even pick out someone worthy of telling her doctor about so she can get out of her weekly sessions? "Confessions of a So-Called Middle Child" will make you literally laugh out loud with all the crazy things Charlie thinks and does.